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Tough choice, but I went with Petty. He's still a player I admire and loved
watching play. He was a guy who grew into leadership role mainly out of
necessity. Once he accepted the challenge, he became a much better QB
than even he thought he could be. Never was the greatest QB I saw in
my lifetime as far as ability goes, but he is a guy near the top of my list
of favorite players here because of the way he ran his position and made
the team a winner. He had the right attitude and approach to the game.

Cory is another player I really loved watching play, but unlike Phil, he played
his position behind a pretty weak O/Line that didn't allow him to be nearly
as good (stats wise) as he was capable of being. Would LOVED to have
seen him run with a line similar to the one we had in 2000 and 2001. The
only mark I have against Cory is the issue he had with substance abuse
that caused him to miss and entire season.....However, the biggest
reason I have to admire him is that he could have quit this team after that
but chose to come back and finish his time here and stay in Garnet & Black.
He did it, and became the vocal and inspiratrional leader of the team when
he did. Takes a special kind of man to do something like that.

This one is the toughest one for me of these polls so far. Petty did more with less and was more consistent than Boyd...but man I really, really liked both of these guys. I wonder shat spurrier could have done with petty...

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Flying the Gamecock Flag from the mountains of North Carolina!

This one is the toughest one for me of these polls so far. Petty did more with less and was more consistent than Boyd...but man I really, really liked both of these guys. I wonder shat spurrier could have done with petty...

Is this when you're day dreaming and poo your pants? Go clean yourself up.

This one is the toughest one for me of these polls so far. Petty did more with less and was more consistent than Boyd...but man I really, really liked both of these guys. I wonder shat spurrier could have done with petty...

Petty was a steady performer. I cussed him all the time, but would love for him to be qb at any point the past decade.

Tough choice, but I went with Petty. He's still a player I admire and loved
watching play. He was a guy who grew into leadership role mainly out of
necessity. Once he accepted the challenge, he became a much better QB
than even he thought he could be. Never was the greatest QB I saw in
my lifetime as far as ability goes, but he is a guy near the top of my list
of favorite players here because of the way he ran his position and made
the team a winner. He had the right attitude and approach to the game.

Cory is another player I really loved watching play, but unlike Phil, he played
his position behind a pretty weak O/Line that didn't allow him to be nearly
as good (stats wise) as he was capable of being. Would LOVED to have
seen him run with a line similar to the one we had in 2000 and 2001. The
only mark I have against Cory is the issue he had with substance abuse
that caused him to miss and entire season.....However, the biggest
reason I have to admire him is that he could have quit this team after that
but chose to come back and finish his time here and stay in Garnet & Black.
He did it, and became the vocal and inspiratrional leader of the team when
he did. Takes a special kind of man to do something like that.

The circumstances surrounding Petty taking over as a starter and the reaction of some of his "teammates" would have destroyed a lot of guys. The fact he was able to recover from that and lead the team the way he did was enough for me pick him here.

Petty. First off, I gotta rep my hometown.
Second, He led us out of our darkest years of 0-22.
Third, he led us to back to back bowl victories against OSU.
Fourth, He did it with way less talent around him than we have now.

I really loved how hard Cory played but Phil is pretty high up there in terms of importance to our recent history.